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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
May. 18, 2004
Hiroyuki Kikkoji, Tokyo, JP;
Nozomu Okuzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Moriya, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Murase, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Kikkoji, Tokyo, JP;
Nozomu Okuzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Moriya, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Murase, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a display device for retrieving and displaying the list information regarding the broadcast contents in which the list information corresponding to the program broadcast before or after can be displayed without making the complicate key operations. An information servertransmits a list of musical compositions broadcast in a designated time zone to a terminal unit, based on a retrieval key such as date and time zone from the terminal unit. The terminal unitdisplays the received list of musical compositions on a display part. At this time, the directive items for displaying the list of musical compositions broadcast before and after are displayed, together with the received list of musical compositions. The user is allowed to display the list of musical compositions broadcast in a preceding or succeeding time zone only by selecting a directive item by performing an operation in series with a selection operation for a musical composition within the list of musical compositions, without returning to other screen, or re-specifying the retrieval conditions.